After a solid month of rumor mongering, the Google Phone — which was purported to be an Android smartphone with heavy custom Google branding meant to go mano to mano with the iPhone — has been unveiled. It’s not quite what everyone expecting.

The news broke late on Friday, after Google employees were called in to an all-hands meeting and given gorgeous, unlocked new Android phones to test in an experiment jokingly referred to by Google as “eating their own dogfood”

All of the information we have about the phone so far comes through Google employees who have tweeted about their new handset. The handset identifies itself through both its user agent string and EXIF data as the “Nexus One,” a decent little Blade Runner reference. In appearance, it seems to be the HTC Draon, with no physical keyboard and a 3.7 inch AMOLD display and 5MP camera. It runs the Snapdragon chip, so this is one of the speediest Android phones on the market. Finally, the Nexus one is confirmed as thinner than the iPhone, which give it major sex appeal points.

And that’s it. As far as concrete news about the Google Phone, that’s all we know. After that, all we have are rumors. One says that if the device is sold, it will be available unlocked and capable of functioning on both the AT&T network and the T-Mobile network.

That’s just a rumor, of course: right now, there’s no evidence that this will be sold. But Google distributing an official handset to their employees certainly implies big plans, and the device is undeniably sexy: the Droid taken up a notch. 2010 will be an interesting year indeed for Android, not just as a platform, but as a smartphone.